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Journal Junction for February 25

February 25, 2013

Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Martinsburg:

Perhaps NASCAR should fail as a "sport." It's a colossal waste of gasoline, machinery and time, to say nothing of the occasional waste of human lives. Is there really any pastime more pointless than watching cars endlessly go around in a circle for 200 miles, burning gas, creating noise and polluting the air?

From: Charles Town:

Don't more households than not now have HD? Why does Comcast charge an extra fee for it? Whomever has the power, please do something about all the fee gouging for cable service. It's really getting ridiculous!

From Charles Town:

I just hope that our mayor and City Council will tackle our homeless problem after they finally rid our town of deer!

From Inwood:

Joe Biden urged people to buy shotguns for home protection. What a gun grabber!

From Leetown:

The sequester was not President Obama's idea. It was a joint agreement. The state worker from Hedgesville can expect more furlough days since federal dollars flow to the state. People need to call Capitol Hill, the congressmen at 1-202-224-3121 and tell them to make compromises with cuts and taxes on those who can pay more.

From Inwood:

Walmart is hiring more vets now that the Post Office. Have to change the term of Going Postal to Going Wallyworld.

From South Berkeley:

So the fearmonger-in-chief proposes the sequester and now tries to rear-end "we the people" by backing out of it. He blames Republicans for fearmongering yet, when he does it is because he cares and is concerned! If so he'd get government off our backs and start living within its means like the rest of us. By the way, if Obamacare is such a great deal, why is it that congress doesn't sign up for it? We are in deep...

From Inwood:

In regard to all the tax cuts we're talking about before March 1: Why can't the presidents of today follow in the footsteps of Abe Lincoln, so everyone in America has a fair share in life.

From Berkeley County:

It seems to me now that Tiger Woods and Obama are friends. So what does that tell you about our president's character?

From Berkeley County:

If unions were half as strong as Republicans demonize them to be, Congress could never have passed the tax credits and subsidies to corporations that paid companies to ship American jobs overseas, and led to importing cheap junk from overseas that often doesn't work.